Residents are concerned.
Holbeck residents have been left disgusted after finding out that sex workers have been “shooting up drugs” in a phonebox.
“They had an area for prostitutes to go,” he said. “It stopped them going to residential areas but now they’re left with nowhere to go so they go to residential areas now. They go to dustbin areas, we found out recently that just the corner near where I live, there’s a telephone box they use to shoot high with drugs, that happens day and night.
Michael believes that people from all over are still coming to Holbeck to use sex workers and claims he has called West Yorkshire Police’s dedicated line on a number of occasions but says with the line closing at 11pm, there’s not much they can do. By the time they get through to the non-emergency line, the workers will have moved on.
“They used to go into the residential areas even when the managed approach was there but at least it could control them better. The police have a direct line for complaints but it finishes at 11 at night, if you have an incident with prostitutes after that you have to ring 101 that takes an hour to get through and by the time you get through they have gone. If you call 999, you get told its not a crime and to call 101. That’s what we’re up against.
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